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18 Internet of Things Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
• Photonics
• Biotechnology
• Advanced Materials
• Advanced Manufacturing Systems.
As such, IoT creates intelligent applications that are based on the supporting
KETs identified, as IoT applications address smart environments either
physical or at cyber-space level, and in real time.
To this list of key enablers, we can add the global deployment of IPv6 across
the World enabling a global and ubiquitous addressing of any communicating
smart thing.
From a technology perspective, the continuous increase in the integration
density proposed by Moore’s Law was made possible by a dimensional scaling:
in reducing the critical dimensions while keeping the electrical field constant,
one obtained at the same time a higher speed and a reduced power consumption
of a digital MOS circuit: these two parameters became driving forces of the
microelectronics industry along with the integration density.
The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors has emphasized
in its early editions the “miniaturization” and its associated benefits in
terms of performances, the traditional parameters in Moore’s Law. This trend
for increased performances will continue, while performance can always be
traded against power depending on the individual application, sustained by the
incorporation into devices of new materials, and the application of new transistor
concepts. This direction for further progress is labelled “More Moore”.
The second trend is characterized by functional diversification of
semiconductor-based devices. These non-digital functionalities do contribute
to the miniaturization of electronic systems, although they do not necessarily
scale at the same rate as the one that describes the development of digital
functionality. Consequently, in view of added functionality, this trend may be
designated “More-than-Moore” [11].
Mobile data traffic is projected to double each year between now and 2015
and mobile operators will find it increasingly difficult to provide the bandwidth
requested by customers. In many countries there is no additional spectrum that
can be assigned and the spectral efficiency of mobile networks is reaching its
physical limits. Proposed solutions are the seamless integration of existing
Wi-Fi networks into the mobile ecosystem. This will have a direct impact on
Internet of Things ecosystems.